BEAT THE BANK

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 185, 12 August 1911, Page 6

BEAT THE BANK

The boy came into the Cleveland Bank and laid a half-dollar with his bank-book on the receiving teller's window. "We don't receive deposits of less than a- dollar," said the teller. The boy yielded reluctantly to the system and drew back. But he did not- leave the bank. He crossed the corridor and seated himself on a settee. The teller noticed him sitting there, and ialso noticed the reflective look on his face1. The boy waited for some time, thinking it over. Finally ho arose and went to the paying; teller's window. A moment later he confronted the receiving teller. "I want to deposit this dollar and :i~ hnlf," he said. The teller grinned. The boy had just drawn a dollar froai his little balance and was using it as an entering wedge for th© rejected ■half-dollar. And so the system was beatcn_ by the boy, and a, considerable accession of book-keeping labor was the price of defeat.